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proposed a specific difference, yet I find that the greater number of specimens collected in Nepal in 1819, and sent by Dr. Wallich to Sir Joseph Banks in the following year, have the deeply divided calyx with very acute and narrow segments characteristic of L. intermedia, while among the specimens from Martaban, in Dr. Wallich's Indian Her- barium, in the Museum of the Linnean Society, both states of calyx occur. But though I am not disposed to regard these differences in calyx as of specific importance, it is right to state that all the specimens which I have examined from Java and Timor, as well as those from Jurreepanee in the collection of Dr. Royle, agree in having the broader less acute and shorter segments of calyx, as represented in Mr. Bauer's figure, and also in that of Dr. Wallich.

With respect to the generic name Loxotis here adopted, it is that which I first gave in my manuscripts to the plant now described. This, however, I many years ago changed to Antonia, in compliance with the request of my lamented friend and fellow-traveller Mr. Ferdinand Bauer, to whom I was indebted for the figure here published. But as that name, by which it was introduced into a celebrated flower piece, painted in honour of the late Baron Jacquin at Vienna, and well known to the botanists of that capital, was never otherwise made public, and as Antonia of Pohl since published in his work on the " Plants of Brazil (vol. ii, p. 13, tab. 109)" is sufficiently established as a genus, I have been obliged to recur to my original name, under which indeed it has already appeared in Mr. Bentham's "Essay on Scrophularinse Indicse." The name Loxotis, however, may now be objected to from its too close resemblance in sound and identity of meaning, to Loxonia, another genus of the same family, more recently established by Dr. Jack ; and the specific name obliqua is hardly less exceptionable, being merely a translation of that of the genus. This difficulty would be easily removed were it absolutely certain that Rldnchoghssvm of Dr. Blume was identical with Loxotis; but from some of the characters ascribed to it I am not entirely satisfied that such is the case ; and, indeed, as it is arranged by its author with Rhinanthea, had I not re-

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